Send score of flash animation in a slide of captivate 6.

Hi,
I want to insert a slide captivate named January 1 swf flash animation in which a score appears at the end of this swf animation. I will wish that captivate gets this score and place it on the slide named 2. Do you know how? I guess it must be programmed into the flash animation but what code returned for captivate know to interpret it?

You may be able to use some of the original code. A widget is also an SWF. It just has certain code that Captivate requires in order for Cp to see it as a widget.
You can either use Adobe's widget templates (see their Help doco) or you can use the WidgetFactory API by Tristan the Widget King:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetfactory/info

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